Feminism : the essential historical writings / edited with an introduction and commentaries by Miriam Schneir.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-374).

Eighteenth-century rebels -- Familiar letters of John Adams and his wife, During the Revolution / Abigail Adams -- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Women alone -- Course of popular lectures / Frances Wright -- Indiana -- Letters of George Sand -- The intimate journal of George Sand / George Sand -- Letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of woman / Sarah M. Grimke -- Early factory labor in New England / Harriet H. Robinson -- Song of the shirt / Thomas Hood -- Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller -- Married Woman's Property Act, New York, 1848 -- An American woman's movement -- Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions -- Seneca Falls -- Editorial from The North Star / Frederick Douglass -- Intelligent wickedness / William Lloyd Garrison -- Letter from Prison of St. Lazare, Paris -- Ain't I a woman? -- What time of night it is / Sojourner Truth -- Not Christianity, but priestcraft / Lucretia Mott -- Marriage of Lucy Stone under protest -- Disappointment is the lot of woman / Lucy Stone -- Address to the New York State Legislature, 1854 -- Address to the New York State Legislature, 1860 / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Married Women's Property Act, New York, 1860 -- Petitions were circulated / Ernestine L. Rose -- Keeping the thing going while things are stirring / Sojourner Truth -- The United States of American vs. Susan B. Anthony -- Woman wants bread, not the ballot! / Susan B. Anthony -- Virtue: What it is, and what it is not -- Which is to blame? -- The elixir of life / Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin -- Womanliness ; Solitude of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Men as feminists -- Subjection of woman / John Stuart Mill -- A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen -- The origin of the family, private property, and the state / Friedrich Engels -- Woman and socialism / August Bebel -- Theory of the leisure class / Thorstein Veblen -- Twentieth-century themes : Women and economics / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Lady / Emily James Putnam -- Senate report - history of women in industry in the United States -- Woman's share in social culture / Anna Garlin Spencer -- The world movement for woman suffrage 1904 to 1911 -- Is woman suffrage progressing? / Carrie Chapman Catt -- I incite this meeting to rebellion / Emmeline Pankhurst -- Traffic in women -- Marriage and love / Emma Goldman -- Woman and the new race / Margaret Sanger -- My recollections of Lenin : An interview on the woman question -- A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- On understanding women / Mary Ritter Beard.

Includes writings by Abigail Adams, Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, George Sand, Sarah M. Grimke, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Victoria Woodhull, John Stuart Mill, Henrik Ibsen, Friedrich Engels, Thorstein Veblen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, and Virginia Woolf, among others.